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July 2, 2008

G87: Rays 7, Red Sox 6

Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen each faced three batters in the seventh -- and retired no one. All six runners scored -- Terry Francona used four pitchers in the 11-batter inning -- and Tampa completed the three-game sweep.

Dice (5-2-1-5-5) had a horrible 1.2 innings, but then settled down nicely, retiring 10 of his last 11 batters. Going back to the end of the first inning, he retired 13 of his last 16 batters. He threw 101 pitches in five innings (24-25-17 14-21).

Dustin Pedroia homered in the first, tripled in the third and doubled in the fifth. He needed only a single for Boston's first cycle since John Valentin (June 6, 1996), but he flew out to center in the sixth and doubled in the eighth.

Boston dropped to 3.5 GB. They move on to New York, where the Yankees routed Texas tonight, 18-7.

I said at the start of the season that there should be a parade if the Giants were to go .500. Now I feel like they'd still deserve the parade -- but might win the division along with it if they were able to pull it off.

It's fun when your ace pitcher looks like the president of a high school chess club. I root for the Giants...nothing like for the Sox, of course, but I like to see them win.

im gonna see if i can get tix for sunday nights game to see the cunt pitch in person (oh how i cant stand him).i won tix for the 4th of july game by being caller number 4 on the mike and the maddog show, can you believe that shit???